"Windows XP was the last client version of Windows to include the Pinball game that had been part of Windows since Windows 95. There is apparently speculation that this was done for legal reasons. No, that's not why." I love these stories.

this same dev would insist on adding a comment every third or fourth line, for no reason at all that I could fathom.

My theory is that any "developer" who has unexplainable coding ticks must have suffered some kind of traumatic learning experience. These are people who develop rituals to ward off evil, not people who write code to solve problems.